Sentence examples for swallow it up from inspiring English sources

A Library Journal review called it a "glittering mirror ball of a memoir," adding, "Despite the ponderous language and the need for an unabridged dictionary by the reader's side, McCourt's book brilliantly captures queer New York life just before mainstream pop culture came nipping at its heels to swallow it up".

I loved Rome more than ever, and I wanted to swallow it up with me.

The iceberg only gets seven hours and 40 minutes of daylight now, and soon the darkness will swallow it up completely.

Chad dreams of the profits that will flow in when a planned Interstate is cut through the dig and a lake is allowed to swallow it up; he's already been in talks with the Holiday Inn folks.

Dr Richard House, a chartered psychologist and long-standing campaigner on early childhood, said: "Whilst a right to appeal is an advance, it will also quite possibly be used to neutralise dissent and, at worst, swallow it up in an impenetrable Kafkaesque bureaucracy".

"In one respect City are fine because they're bankrolled by Abu Dhabi, so financially they can swallow it up," said Green.

They're not afraid of the sun here, they're swallowing it up, getting that deep, dark tan.

"I thought we were goners for sure, was truly scary how fast it came into our camp site and swallowed it up," she said.

I doubt if they still return to that water, as the suburban growth of the town has extended to Clickhimin and swallowed it up making it less attractive to a migratory swan seeking a milder winter.

McCarthy's narrator watches the ferry from Manhattan, with the sun "haloing it, transmuting it into a brilliant orange pool that spread across the harbor like a second mass of water … This pool of light was spreading right towards the ferry, swallowing it up, dismantling it pixel by orange pixel".

"No drop of milk oozes from the Apple teat without a crowd of journalists gathering to swallowing it up".